The Energon Pub

Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:16 pm

I understand your frustration Scotty, as a Raleigh area collector I rarely see many responses. There's an NC tf collectors group on fb, but most of the members are scattered all over the mid-atlantic and rarely post stuff relevant to my interests. Every time I'm at a local Walmart or Target they have little to nothing worthy of reporting (the Target on 70/Lynn rd barely even had a tf section when I was in there tonight) so I've not been posting anything myself. You're one of the key contributors here so I hope you'll keep it up.

News Credits: 656 · Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:37 pm

EnergonHangover wrote:I understand your frustration Scotty, as a Raleigh area collector I rarely see many responses. There's an NC tf collectors group on fb, but most of the members are scattered all over the mid-atlantic and rarely post stuff relevant to my interests. Every time I'm at a local Walmart or Target they have little to nothing worthy of reporting (the Target on 70/Lynn rd barely even had a tf section when I was in there tonight) so I've not been posting anything myself. You're one of the key contributors here so I hope you'll keep it up.

Appreciate the sentiment!

That said, if somewhere doesn't have anything noteworthy - it's still noteworthy. Could be saving someone a trip!

News Credits: 656 · Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:48 pm

Six Forks Kmart: Combaticon deluxes if you still need them.

Triangle Town Target: 2 each of latest CW deluxes (Trailbreaker, Wheeljack, etc)

Triangle Town TRU: Not-quite-the-latest RiD Warriors are there. 1 each of Fracture, Megatronus, Bee redeco, and Blizzard Prime.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Feb 22, 2016 5:14 pm

pick up a voyager onslaught, deluxe wheeljack and smokescreen at the target in Huntersville. there are still a bunch of hounds,smokescreens, and swindles, but only one trailbreaker.

Mon Feb 22, 2016 6:01 pm

Blakeney target has one each. hound trail breaker and wheeljack.

News Credits: 656 · Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:52 pm

Bought the only Sky Lynx at Lynn Rd. Target. It was a returned toy, all the plastic ties were clipped and the box was double taped. Bought it anyway, it's just fine thankfully. There is also one Onslaught there but the same thing applies, it's been opened and returned.

There was also a First Aid there, which is something I hadn't seen in awhile.

Fri Mar 11, 2016 6:33 pm

I finally found an Onslaught in the wild! The Walmart on New Hope Church Rd had two (now just one) along with two Scattershots. Strangely enough those were pretty much the only transformers figures they had with none of the smaller ones at all.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Mar 16, 2016 2:17 pm

Albemarle Rd Target had 1 set of CW wave 6 deluxes, voyager Onslaught, no RID warriors, leader class skywarp and thundercraker, and a voyager scattershot. all still there.

Question: is CW trailbreaker any good? he looks like he's really flimsy in the package.

News Credits: 656 · Sun Mar 20, 2016 9:08 pm

weebot17 wrote:Albemarle Rd Target had 1 set of CW wave 6 deluxes, voyager Onslaught, no RID warriors, leader class skywarp and thundercraker, and a voyager scattershot. all still there.

Question: is CW trailbreaker any good? he looks like he's really flimsy in the package.

No flimsier than any other CW fig. It's a decent stand in if you missed out on the IDW styled one a couple years ago. Head sculpt is very G1 even if the alt mode isn't as faithful.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:46 pm

found the cw wave 5 legends in multiple Walmarts and targets in my area. just putting that out there... k?

News Credits: 2 · Mon Apr 18, 2016 11:37 pm

Found and bought CW legend Wreck-gar at the TTC Wal-mart in Raleigh, of all places surprisingly, on Monday. They also had 2 Shockwave, 2 Warpath, a Bombshell, all the other 2016 wave 1 CW legends, and some 2015 legends (Skywarp, Rodimus, Blackjack,and Groove). They also had some CW voyager Scattershots and Onslaughts.

They also had the second RID2015 minicon 4-pack.

News Credits: 656 · Tue Apr 19, 2016 8:26 am

Goggle Convoy wrote:They also had the second RID2015 minicon 4-pack.

Oh man, didn't even known it was out. I know where I'm going tonight if Apex location doesn't have them at lunchtime today. Thanks!

Mon Apr 25, 2016 12:58 pm

picked up the only wreck gar at matthews target. nothing else of note.

News Credits: 2 · Tue May 10, 2016 12:46 am

Bought RID2015 Warriors Thunderhoof and Quillfire at the TTC Walmart in Raleigh. They also had Warrior Blizzard Strike Drift.

Fri May 13, 2016 7:33 pm

Matthews target has 2 cw wreck gars. 2 shock waves and a warpath. Also 3 onslaughts.

News Credits: 656 · Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:45 pm

Haven't seen much new and noteworthy lately anywhere in the Raleigh area. I'm hearing the only TR stuff to show up in state so far have been at some of the Charlotte areas TRUs and that's it. I can't really say I miss the hunt though, it's just so easy to get everything online these days.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Jul 03, 2016 11:31 pm

After running around Raleigh, Cary, and Durham today looking for TR anything with no luck, I finally found some wave 1 deluxes at the TTC Walmart in Raleigh tonight. Just picked up the 2 Scourges to be Sweeps for the TT version of Scourge when I get him.

They still had 2 each of the other figures, didn't get them as I'm planning to get TT's Hardhead and Skull with their extra weapons and I like the paint job on TT's Blurr better (at least from what I've seen in promo pics).

News Credits: 656 · Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:32 am

Goggle Convoy wrote:After running around Raleigh, Cary, and Durham today looking for TR anything with no luck, I finally found some wave 1 deluxes at the TTC Walmart in Raleigh tonight. Just picked up the 2 Scourges to be Sweeps for the TT version of Scourge when I get him.

They still had 2 each of the other figures, didn't get them as I'm planning to get TT's Hardhead and Skull with their extra weapons and I like the paint job on TT's Blurr better (at least from what I've seen in promo pics).

Ah, lmao, of course! I decided last night to go to either the New Hope Ch Rd one or that one (those are the closest two to me) and of course I picked the former which had nothing. Might stop in shortly and see if anything's left, might not. Thanks for the heads up regardless ;)^

News Credits: 656 · Mon Jul 04, 2016 11:39 am

Went over to TTC Walmart and grabbed a few of the Deluxes. Just a Skullcruncher remaining.

Went across the street to the TRU for the heck of it and got the only RiD Power Surge Bee and Sideswipe there, nothing else much new to report.

Oh, and forgot about this one but Lynn Rd Target had one each of Warrior Thunderhoof and Quillfire yesterday.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:45 pm

Went to the Wake Forest Walmart tonight and snatched up a lonely pair of Sentinel Prime and Galvatron aka nothing else TR-related there. When I first saw the boxes on the shelf, I thought to myself, "It's just a pair of Sentinel Primes no one else wants," so I was happily surprised that one of them was Galvatron.

Also stopped by the WF Target, but nothing new TF-wise.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:19 pm

Greetings and bienvenue. I have returned after a long spat of responsibilities and a lack of interest in the last few CW toys, but with Titans return I return as well. As soon as I saw ScottyP's sightings I began searching. Some sad news, when I went to the TTC Wal-Mart, I found the remains of the last Skullsmasher but the not toy itself. While looking to see if someone had tried to hide it, I found the inner bubble of Skullsmasher's packaging, made apparent by the outline of the tail and head of the crocodile. Neither the toy or the rest of its packaging could be found. There was also a CW Scattershot with no inner packaging or toy, so it seems to be a random theft, but still disheartening. So I looked all around Raleigh and Cary, but did not find anymore until I went to the Target in Morrisville . There I found 2 Skullsmashers and Hardheads, and one of Scourge. I saw no Blurrs, Sentinels or Galvatrons, nor any of the individual Titan Masters or Scout class figures from TR line. I bought the Scourge, and one of each of the remaining figures. That was the fruit of my searches in the Raleigh-Cary area stores, barring the TTC Target or TRU, the Target at North Hills, or any K-Marts.

News Credits: 656 · Wed Jul 06, 2016 4:38 pm

concrusher792 wrote:Some sad news, when I went to the TTC Wal-Mart, I found the remains of the last Skullsmasher but the not toy itself. While looking to see if someone had tried to hide it, I found the inner bubble of Skullsmasher's packaging, made apparent by the outline of the tail and head of the crocodile. Neither the toy or the rest of its packaging could be found. There was also a CW Scattershot with no inner packaging or toy, so it seems to be a random theft, but still disheartening.

:O That's terrible! Glad you were able to at least track down Scourge though, looks like a lot of fun

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jul 06, 2016 8:30 pm

Did some minor rounds after work. Brier Creek Wal-Mart has one of each TR Wave 1 Deluxe, which someone moved from the Transformers section, hiding half of them on a top shelf and half of them behind the Ghostbusters merchandise. Promptly returned them to proper area for others to find more easily. Nothing new at TTC stores and Knightdale Target barring a random Generations BM Tankor in Knightdale, not clearance-priced though. New Bern Ave Walmart had one Sentinel Prime, no Galvatron, 2 of Scourge and Skullsmasher, and one Blurr and Hardhead. The lack of Galvatron and bare presence of Sentinel leads me to think the Voyagers are highly desirable this time around, meaning Galvatron will probably be a pain in the skidplate to find. Still no individual Titan Masters either, which is weird because the Scout class figures tend to be the first of any new wave, at least around here it seems.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:59 pm

TR Legends are at TTC Target, there were 3 Stripes, 3 Rewinds, and 2 Wheelies. Bought a Wheelie and Rewind. TRU at TTC had one Scourge and nothing else TR. Nothing else notable in my rounds today. Still no individual Titan Masters.

News Credits: 2 · Mon Jul 18, 2016 10:01 pm

Bought the third Minicon 4-pack at the North Hills Target in Raleigh. There were two or three left at the time I bought it, which was around 1:30pm. Cary Target also had three of them.

Not much found for TR except for a Scourge at the NH Target and a couple of Rewinds and Stripes at the Cary Walmart. Aside from the two Wheelies I saw at TTC Target last Monday, I haven't seen him at any of the places I've seen Rewind and Stripes over the last week. People must not hate him as much as they claim to.

Also stopped by Crowemag's Toys. Pick up a basic Rattrap (the one from the first series of BW toys back when the show first aired), a deluxe Cheetor (BW 10th anniversary with the Maximal symbol on his beast mode's right shoulder, mainly got it because it had a yellow transparent Arms Micron sword packed in the plastic baggie with it), a deluxe TM Taranulus (some minor dings in the transmetalling, but otherwise in good condition), the Generations Minicon Assault Team, and two bagged sets of special edition Arms Microns (one a set of transparent blue microns based on Team Prime, and the other transparent purple microns based on Megs, Screamer, and some random microns).